21-03-2016, 07:04 AM
Anton is right about books and other items being lost. Since I looked at the history of Prague of the time of Rudolf quite a bit, I have seen quite a lot of evidence of this, also related to specific collections known to be lost, and which historians have already partly been searching for.
As is well known, Prague was looted in the course of the 30-years war, and the Swedes took a large number of books to Stockholm. Not long after, a fire in the Stockholm library destroyed a considerable part of this collection. Since catalogues were made shortly before and after the fire, the books lost are well known.
None of the many letters that Kircher sent to Marci have survived. Historians in the Czech republic have been looking for this. It is not at all implied that these were taken to Sweden as well. Marci's library passed (by inheritance) to one of his sons, and all traces of it are lost after that. The interest for us is that it would have included the remainder of Barschius's library as well. Barschius may have left marginal notes in there, etc, etc,
Not only many books, but also many items of art from Rudolf's Kunstkammer have been dispersed, and only part of them has been identified since.
(A similar discussion can be held about what happened with Barschius' notes that Marci sent to Kircher with the MS. These were lost much later, and would certainly make most fascinating reading. There's a chance they are in the Italian national archives, but it's only a small one - and a different topic).
The other point, namely the other book discussed at Nick's blog, would have been the book 'M' in some Rosicrucian's catalogue, IIRC.
As is well known, Prague was looted in the course of the 30-years war, and the Swedes took a large number of books to Stockholm. Not long after, a fire in the Stockholm library destroyed a considerable part of this collection. Since catalogues were made shortly before and after the fire, the books lost are well known.
None of the many letters that Kircher sent to Marci have survived. Historians in the Czech republic have been looking for this. It is not at all implied that these were taken to Sweden as well. Marci's library passed (by inheritance) to one of his sons, and all traces of it are lost after that. The interest for us is that it would have included the remainder of Barschius's library as well. Barschius may have left marginal notes in there, etc, etc,
Not only many books, but also many items of art from Rudolf's Kunstkammer have been dispersed, and only part of them has been identified since.
(A similar discussion can be held about what happened with Barschius' notes that Marci sent to Kircher with the MS. These were lost much later, and would certainly make most fascinating reading. There's a chance they are in the Italian national archives, but it's only a small one - and a different topic).
The other point, namely the other book discussed at Nick's blog, would have been the book 'M' in some Rosicrucian's catalogue, IIRC.
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